ESL273 De Anza College Reflective ESL 247 Portfolio Essay
Content: Write a brief essay, of three pages, reflecting on your progress in ESL 273, and argue why your writing demonstrates your ability to go on to the next level, ESL 5. This essay will go in the front of your portfolio, serving as an introduction to your work for the teachers evaluating the portfolio.
Prior to writing, look over all the work you’ve done for the class. Then, reflecting on your ESL 273 work, consider why you chose the essays you are including in your portfolio and how they demonstrate your advanced academic writing ability. Plan to refer to specific examples from your portfolio essays to show how your writing has improved.
Discuss what you have learned in ESL 273. This might include practice in organization, analysis, development, specific examples, construction of better sentences, peer review, proofreading, writing process, and so on.
How to start with a Hook
Organize
Structure(logical, critical thinking skills)
Developed supporting ideas, example, connections between paragraphs and explanation
Thesis(forecast)
Specific example
Citation(cited, paraphrase, quotation)
Include how your writing has changed or improved as a result of what you have learned in this class. Remember to provide specific evidence for your claims.
Hook
Thesis (how to connect a topic sentence and thesis)
How to use transition words correctly
Improve on developing backgrounds examples and explanations
Cited(paraphrase)
Transition words
Evaluate what still needs improvement. Make sure to write about what you’d still like to work on with your writing. Remember that all of us, teachers included, are still trying to be better writers, so what are you going to focus on next in the next level and beyond? DO NOT simply write about a weakness. That does not fulfill the requirement.
Paraphrase
Critical thinking skills
Summary and final thoughts
Right example to support the topic sentence
Connecting back to main ideas
Organizing ideas
Develop content
Contrast with the related topic
Audience: De Anza ESL teachers
What we’re looking for in the reflective essay:
Analysis of your own writing process and evaluation of your strengths and weakness as a writer
Clear organization
Well-developed, focused paragraphs
Specific examples, details
Well-constructed sentences
Correct grammar and punctuation
Form: typed, double-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman font, 1″ margins
Draft for Peer Review, Due:
This essay is due as part of your portfolio on:
If the Portfolio readers determine that the reflective essay is not representative of the writing of the other work in the portfolio, especially of the in-class writing, the portfolio will receive an automatic no pass (NP).
I believe I am ready to go to ESL 5 because I have learned how to write a thesis sentence and improved the skills to use specific examples, and I will be improving ability to make clearer points and details in the next class.
Look up the sample essay, and example outline, and portfolio scoring guide files
5 paragraphs
Introduction: need hook, background, thesis(topic sentence of 3 each body paragraph) you should write what skills have I learned from ESL 273 class, second body paragraph: improvement, third paragraph: what skills still need improve.
You need to state what skills in detail, grammar couldn’t be a skill.
Also you need to state two to three examples of skills, need to be specific in what skills and example from the final draft document.
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